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WILLIAMS. HABBERTON, or MoUNT CARMEL; ILnnvoIs` i i u APPARATUS FOR ISTUFFING HORSE-COLLARS.;

Specification of Letters Patent No. 26,671, dated "iJanuaryiS, 1860.I i

Wabash and State of Illinois, havt-zinvented` a new and useful Improvement in Machinery for Stuing and Shaping Horse-Collars;

`and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this speciication, in whichi Figure l, is a perspective View of myarrangement of mechanism as applied for stuffing a horse collar. Fig. 2, is a vertical longitudinal section of the salne. Fig. 3, is a Vertical transverse sectionof the same. Fig. 4, is a plan of the work bench. Fig. 5, `is an inverted view of the lever `by which the power is applied to the shaping device.

o Similar letters of reference,`in each of the several figures indicate corresponding parts. In the manufacture of horse collars by hand, great labor has to be expended by the operator in shaping the circular bottom part of the collar, and so very difficult is this to be accomplished while the stuffing `is placed compactly into the same, the power of the strongest operator, with the front part of the collar placed against his knee,

is hardly sufficient to do it perfectly and` `Much labor has also to be expended in stuff! ing the collar by hand after the ordinary methods.` i My invention is designed to save the opera-tor much of this labor and at the` same time facilitate the manufacture and improve the style and character of horse collars. g

My `first improvement consists in the use of a clasp and taper pin in combinationwith the collar block for the purpose of holding the collar on the block while the flower curved or throat portion is being stuffed.

My second improvement consists in the combination of a leverarrangement with the stuffing rod provided with one or more stops and the collar block in the manner hereinbefore described, whereby the operator is enabled to bring to his aid a long leverage in the operation of stuffing the collar. v

My third improvement consists in the use in combination with a pivoted a )ustable collar block and a stuffing device of an adprogresses, orit may be moved `out farther justable bending "and "shaping machinelf?` l which is constructed` substantially `in they manner hereinafter described,wherebytht-i` throat of the collar can "be gradually bentyy shaped and stuffed to the3proper curved@I t form withvery littlenianual laborl.` f i To enable others, skilled in `the art, to i make and. use my invention, `Ij will proceedi y to describe its construction ando eration. A, represents a stationary wor -lienehon` which the whole apparatus. isfinountedii B, isan ordinaryfcollar block.l "`Iti1"`is"`ij i pivoted tothe bench` by la pivot boltl C, `and .i i is furnished withan adjustingset-bolt` 1),"70 which lits into either; ofthe series ofholes a, in the top `of thebench accordingly "sasfx ,i the collar blockis turned on"l its axis.` f E, is a lever supporting-armfitted loosely l to the pivot bolt j F, is alever pivoted nearthe outerend of` supporting armas shown at b,`"or` .a`t.a`ny` point desired, a series of ivot `holes `being provided in the arm to a low of the `levferl being set farther `frolnfor nearer tofthe.: y y block,` as occasion may require. "To onefefnd` of this lever, a stuffing rodGuQisconnedoed,a` slot o, being cut inthe endbf the" leverfto admit the rod and a seriesfof adjustable i 1i stops or shoulders` arranged tol retainthe35` lever inplace in the rodysaid shouldersbecut on the stuiiing rod.` Byj having" thel shoulders thus arranged, t the lever mayfbev` shifted from one to the other as the stuffing f rom the block `by turning the shoulders in `a proper direction on the stuiiirigrod.` The l lever also has a series of adjusting holes 0,21 provided in it so thatfits length fromthe.. y y fulcrum tothe stuiiing rod may be increased f 1 E or decreased, as maybe required. H, is the clasp which holds the throat por t i l tion of the collar of the block,"this clasp of hook; form and passes through thjelcollar into the back of `the collar block. I," isga t wedge pin which passes down into anropen-I` i ing cut through the collar block and enters a hole formed in thelongest part` offtheh g clasp. This pin by` being wedge shape draws the clasp tightly around the body J, V of the collar, and causesit `to t snuglytop the hollow of the collar block. l t K, K, are the side claspsforholding .theyf` i sides of the collarsnugly to the hollow` of il the block; these clasps arealsolofhookiform, l corresponding in shape tothe rim of." the collar. These clasps are connected at the center of the block by means of a strap d, which has adjusting holes and is confined at its meeting ends by a set screw e, of the collar block.

L, represents a sliding concave, it is fitted loosely by means of an extension L, within a metallic guide box M, which is firmly attached to the bench. This concave is of a shape corresponding to that which it is desired to give the throat portion of the collar.

N, is a lever attached by means of a pivot bolt f, to a slide g, which is tted by means of dove-tails to the top of the stationaryY guide box M. The lever has an eccentric or cam L, formed on i-t near its fulcrum. On the underside of the cam or eccentric, an eccentric groove i, is cut. Into this groove, a pin y', projecting up from the extension kof the concave fits and plays freely as the lever is turned on vits fulcrum. This pin connects together the lever N, and concave so that afterthe concave has been forced up against the rim of the collar it shall be drawn back with the return movement Vof the lever. The eccentric or cam portion of the lever comes in contact with a shoulder 7c, of the concave and causes it to move forward up against the collar rim, with a pressure sufficiently great to cause'the throat portion of the collar although compactly stuffed to take the curved form of the concave, both in the path of a vertical circle and in the path of a horizontal circle, and thus the channel between the body and rim of the collar and the proper curved form to fit the throat of the horse formed in the most perfect manner.

O, is an adjusting screw for moving the slide and concave back and forward so as to operate upon different sized collars. It will be observed that although the slide does not move when the lever operates the concave, the concave necessarily moves when the screw operates the slide. This results from the lever having its fulcrum in the slide and being combined with the slide by means of the pin j, as represented.

The operation is as follows: The unstuifed collar being placed in the hollow of the block and confined at the throat portion by means of the clasp and wedge pin, the operator lays hold of one end of the collar and the collar.

commences to insert the stuffing, and as fast as it is introduced applies power to the lever and thus causes the stufling rod to force the same compactly into the throat portion of ing is inserted and rammed down and then the block is turned on its pivot bolt a certain distance and secured by the set bolt. The

Vlever N, is now again brought into action and another portion of the throat of the collar bent and shaped. Thus the operation proceeds f gradually until one-half of the throat portion is furnished. The operator now brings the block back to its original position, detaches the stuffing lever, turns it over, and again replaces it so that it stands on the opposite side of the block. I-Ie now proceeds to stuff, bend and shape as above described until the other half of the neck portion is completed. This being done and the block again brought to its original position, the sides vof the collar are stuffed and when pretty well filled for a certain distance are clasped down by the side clasps. The stuiiing now is carried on until completed by using the stufiing rod in the hand Without the aid of the lever. The rim being iinished, the body is stuffed on the block instead of on the knee by the ordinary hand stuffing rods.

Vhat I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The clasp and taper pin in combination with the collar block substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. The combination of the adjustable lever arrangement with the stuiiing rod and collar.

block, substantially as and for the purposes set forth. Y

3. The use in combination with a collar block and stuffing rod, of an adjustable, bending and shaping machine, constructed and operating substantially as described, in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

' WILLIAM S. I-IABBERTON. lVitnesses MICHAEL' J. I-IABBERTON, JEDH. GITTINGs. i

At intervals, he applies power 

